Clickfree DVD Backup - Manual (Page 7)

Clickfree DVD Backup User Guide Introducing Clickfree DVD Backup
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D EFINITIONS
Just to make sure that the user guide is clear, we’re going to define a couple of terms that
are used throughout the guide.
Administrator
“Administrator” is a special login name for the user who can make system-wide changes to
the computer, has full control, and can access all of the files on the computer. Most home
users are automatically the Administrator of their computer. If you don’t know if you are
the Administrator, or how to log in as Administrator, you might need to talk to the person
who set up the computer for you. If no one set up your computer for you, then by default,
you are the Administrator.
Back up and Restore
Backing up is making copies of data so that a copy can be used to restore the original after
the data is lost or destroyed. Backups are used to restore data after loss of or damage to
your computer’s hard drive, and to restore files that have been accidentally deleted or
corrupted.
Making a backup of your content only copies it from your computer to your DVD Backup,
and does not delete it from the computer’s hard drive.
Restoring your content from a backup only copies it from your DVD Backup to your
computer, and does not delete it from the DVD Backup.
Important: Clickfree never erases or replaces content on your computer’s hard drive, unless
you ask it to replace a file during restore.
Clickfree never erases or replaces content on your DVD Backup.
Your Clickfree backups are also handy for moving or copying data from one computer to
another.
Content
Normally you don’t use Clickfree to back up your programs or operating system
(Windows), only the data that you have created or copied to your computer – music,
photos, letters, emails, tax information etc, depending on which
Clickfree DVD Backup
package you are using. In this guide we refer to this data as content.
File
Information used by your computer and stored in a specific place on your hard drive. A file
may be content, a program or part of a program, or information a program uses in some
way.
Sometimes the relationship between content and file is clear: a photo or a letter is usually a
single file. On the other hand, a single email message may be just a part of a large file that
contains many messages, and related information such as email addresses, calendar events
etc. However, you don’t need to be concerned about this because
Clickfree takes care of all
the details for you.